A one-year-old baby from Jerusalem who had no underlying conditions and was not vaccinated against measles died on Wednesday due to complications of the disease, Israel’s Health Ministry announced.
The baby was pronounced dead at the emergency room at Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital after being evacuated from his home early in the morning. He is the 14th fatality since the outbreak of measles began. Almost all of the victims were healthy babies and toddlers who had not been vaccinated against the disease.
Early Wednesday morning, reports said that United Hatzalah volunteers carried out resuscitation efforts on a one-year-old baby who lost consciousness at his home in the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Hatzalah volunteers Pini Weiss and Mordechai Greifer said, “When we arrived, we were handed an approximately one-year-old baby who wasn’t breathing and had no pulse after, according to family members, he did not wake up from his sleep.”
“Together with MDA EMTs and paramedics, we immediately began advanced resuscitation, including chest compressions and ventilation. While resuscitation continued, he was evacuated in critical condition by an MDA intensive care unit ambulance to Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital in the city.”
“We were told that the baby did not wake up from his sleep after having contracted measles a few days earlier,” Yechiel Stern and Ariel Drai, United Hatzalah emergency medical responders, said. “United Hatzalah resilience teams operated at the scene due to the nature of the incident.”
United Hatzalah volunteers noted a concerning rise in the number of children in Chareidi neighborhoods nationwide who have reached life-threatening conditions due to measles, with some tragic cases resulting in death.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Why no kol koreh? lo ta’amod al dam rei’echa.
As a medical professional after hearing all the deaths related to measles I decided to look in, because something seems suspicious a healthy baby doesn’t die from measles what I found is stunning in 99% of the cases in Jerusalem/ Bet Shemesh the children were taken to the hospital already in critical condition due to dehydration because parents were assuming that it will just pass without giving Pedialyte and treating for the dehydration etc…. Making all these campaigns about the vaccines will not help the matter many children die from flu and other viruses as well in Jerusalem due to not being educated about dehydration, and to see a dr when a child is not well just pushing about the vaccines will not help, children will die in other instances someone has to educate them about dehydration this is not a joke and no I’m not an antivaccer I just don’t think this is the right way because we keep on hearing of these deaths and when Hatzolaha is called the child was already in critical condition that is not something you see with someone that is treated properly with a virus or measles. atleast in most cases
why didnt the parents vaccinate the infant after hearing about the 13 previous infants who died רחמנה ליצלן ?
In America, the 1st measles vaccine is given at 18months old. So this baby would not be vaccinated by vaccination clinics yet
When is the first vaccine given in Israel?